Philip Pullman and “the Scoundrel Christ”
September 12, 2009
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Alison Flood in The Guardian: He enraged America’s religious right with his portrayal of God as a senile old man in the His Dark Materials
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Day: September 12, 2009
Padre Oprah on Oprah
September 12, 2009
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Alberto Cutie talks with Oprah about the experience that led him to the Episcopal Church.
The Saturday Collection: 9/12
September 12, 2009
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Here is our weekly collection plate of a few of the good things that Episcopalians and their congregations have done that made the news this past week. And other news fit to print.
Benhase elected bishop of Georgia
September 12, 2009
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The Rev. Scott A. Benhase, rector of St. Alban’s Church in Washington, D. C., has been elected Bishop of Georgia on the second ballot.
The sexuality resolutions
September 12, 2009
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Wondering about risk
September 12, 2009
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They didn’t question whether I was “eligible” to pray for them, bring the sacraments to them, or love them. They clung to me like a life boat and I in turn held steady at their grasp. As they watched their children struggle their relief at the presence of the priest was often palpable. In that moment all they cared about was the fact that a child, their child, was dying and that I was there.
Question of the day
September 12, 2009
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Growing up in the Roman Catholic Church, I learned that celibacy was both a charism (a particular spiritual gift) and an act of heroic self-sacrifice made by priests on behalf of God’s Church. Growing older in the Episcopal Church, I increasingly hear people argue that God calls homosexuals–every single one of them–to lives of celibacy. Are these positions compatible?
Known by our fruits
September 12, 2009
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As the influences of the Divine Spirit are not irresistible, neither are they sensible—they are not to be distinguished from the acts of our own minds—we know them only by their fruits. The Holy Spirit enlightens the understanding, regulates the will, and purifies the affections.
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